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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Responses to al-Qaeda's Initial Assaults".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bin Laden used passages from the ______ to justify his actions.
(a) Tanakh.
(b) Bible.
(c) Koran.
(d) Torah.

2. Which Taliban leader promised the U.S. to expel Bin Laden?
(a) Mullah Omar.
(b) Mawlawi Abdul Kabir.
(c) Mullah Mohammad Rabbani.
(d) Amir Khan Muttaqi.

3. In 1999, new intelligence emerged that Bin Laden would spend a night at a specific location in which city of Afghanistan?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Kabul.
(c) Jalalabad.
(d) Kunduz.

4. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.
(a) International intelligence.
(b) Domestic intelligence.
(c) Domestic dispute.
(d) International dispute.

5. By 1997, the CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks against __________ interests and was actively seeking nuclear materials.
(a) Russia.
(b) U.S.
(c) Quwait.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hijackers where reported to have all of the following weapons except:

2. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?

3. The diplomatic effort shifted to Pakistan, whose ________ was a key backer of the Taliban.

4. When did Bin Laden last warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?

5. By the late 1970s, what began to get directly involved in counter-terrorist operations?

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